She was one of a Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. Starting as a film additional inside 1920, she was already a popular star inside 1927 when she married MGM's chief of production (and 2nd inside command) Irving Thalberg, with whom she experienced ii tykes. Shearer won a Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee in 1930.This was one of a series of roles within sophisticated however racy pre-Code dramas, & Norma was at her better. She was nominated a equivalent month for her role in Their Own Desire, in 1931 for her role in A Free Soul, in 1934 for The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in 1936 for Romeo and Juliet, and inside 1938 for Marie Antoinette which was reputedly her favorite role.

A great beauty & comparatively restrained within two comedy & tragedy, she settled mostly for "Great Woman" roles. Her screen persona remains indistinct, however particularly when Thalberg's dying inside 1936 she got the series of surpringly efficacious performances inside smaller & further way-out vehicles.

Charted Thalberg's dying, Shearer embarked upon the series of little known however enthusiastic romance, including a single using teen film star Mickey Rooney and tough-guy actor, a late George Raft. She retired from either acting around 1942 and married Martín Arrouge, a ski enthusiast twenty years her junior. Confounding a sceptic, it were however successfully married at a period of her demise (from either pneumonia & Alzheimer's disease) at a age of astir Lxxx, although around her declining years she reportedly known as Arrouge "Irving."

She has the Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6636 Hollywood Boulevard, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, in a crypt emblazoned using a title "Norma Arrouge," next to fellow film star Jean Harlow.

Filmography
The Flapper (1920) Way Down East (1920) The Restless Sex (1920) ''Torchy's Millions (1920) (short subject) The Stealers (1920) The Sign on the Door (1921) The Leather Pusher (1922) (undermined role) The End of the World (1922) The Man Who Paid (1922) Channing of the Northwest (1922) The Bootleggers (1922) A Clouded Name (1923) Man and Wife (1923) The Devil's Partner (1923) Pleasure Mad (1923) The Wanters (1923) Lucretia Lombard (1923) The Trail of the Law (1924) The Wolf Man (1924) Blue Water (1924) Broadway After Dark (1924) Broken Barriers (1924) Empty Hands (1924) Married Flirts (1924) (Cameo) He Who Gets Slapped (1924) The Snob (1924) 1925 Studio Tour (1925) (short subject) Excuse Me (1925) Lady of the Night (1925) Waking Up the Town (1925) Pretty Ladies (1925) A Slave of Fashion (1925) The Tower of Lies (1925) His Secretary (1925) The Devil's Circus (1926) Screen Snapshots (1926) (short subject) The Waning Sex (1926) Upstage (1926) The Demi-Bride (1927) After Midnight (1927) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) The Latest from Paris (1928) The Actress (1928) Voices Across the Sea (1928) (short subject) A Lady of Chance (1928) The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) Their Own Desire (1929) The Divorcee (1930) Let Us Be Gay (1930) Jackie Cooper's Birthday Party (1931) (short subject) Strangers May Kiss (1931) The Slippery Pearls (1931) (short subject) A Free Soul (1931) Private Lives (1931) The Christmas Party (1931) (short subject) Smilin' Through (1932) Strange Interlude (1932) Riptide (1934) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) Romeo and Juliet (1936) Marie Antoinette (1938) Hollywood Goes to Town (1938) (short subject) Idiot's Delight (1939) The Women (1939) Escape (1940) We Were Dancing (1942) Her Cardboard Lover'' (1942)